· Private foundation
The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE EDWARD M AND JEANNE C KASHIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $196k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT | $120,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR FRESNO UNIFIED STUDENTS | $42,500 |
| CIVIC EDUCATION CENTER INC | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| GOLDEN PLAINS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| SAINT REST BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR HOMES AND SERVICES | $20,000 |
| KERMAN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $17,500 |
| MENDOTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $16,000 |
| CASA OF FRESNO AND MADERA COUNTIES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,247 |
| WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,592 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,004 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| PAIN | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $283k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +135% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC3× · 2020–2024 · $201k · revenue +153%- CECIVIC EDUCATION CENTER INC5× · 2019–2024 · $185k · revenue +212%
- AUAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION2× · 2018–2019 · $96k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- TCTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $62k · revenue +42%
- FDFIREBAUGH-LAS DELTAS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $51k
- RAREADING AND BEYONDone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To serve youth in the fresno county juvenile justice and foster care systems
A community action agency whose mission is to humanely focus all available resources to empower low-income families and individuals working towards the skills, knowledge,and motivation for self-sufficiency. human services and…
The organization strives to promote fair housing opportunities and to encourage home ownership by providing education, counseling and financial services to persons seeking home ownership, with a special emphasis toward low to moderate…
To meet the needs of struggling families living in poverty.
To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives
Access plus capital is nonprofit small business lender and service provider with the mission to eliminate economic barriers to financial success through fair and equitable community investment.
To coordinate community efforts to precent and respond to child abuse and neglect.
To provide child care education, information and technical assistance to parents, community professionals and child care providers.
Advocation for children policy decisions affecting their wellbeing
Cultivating individual and collective well-being, shared accountability, and healing through community-driven research and evidence-based restorative processes.
To support, train, and employ people who are blind or low vision and increase their opportunities to lead an independent and fulfilling life.
To promote education and self-sufficiency through economic development that strengthens our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is State Center Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is City Without Orphans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HARVEST OF HOPE FAMILY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY WITHOUT ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Fresno and Madera Counties ↗
- Who funds READING AND BEYOND ↗
- Who funds FRESNO CAREER DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds STATE CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Fresno Unified Students ↗
- Who funds One Fresno Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS of the BIG FRESNO FAIR ↗
- Who funds FRESNO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Safe Harbor Homes and Services ↗
- Who funds SAINTS REST COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEV ↗
- Who funds FRESNO POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOPE NOW FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Good Dirt Coalition ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VALLEY JUSTICE COALITION ↗
- Who funds EVANGEL HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Martin Park Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Educational Employees Credit Union · The California Endowment · The Richard & Althea Johanson Family Foundation · Valley Children's Hospital · Saint Agnes Medical Center · Sieg & Doris Fischer FDN-AGY-MAIN · Central California Food Bank · Wayne H Towne Family Foundation · Bonner Family Foundation · Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation · Fresno Metropolitan Ministry
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Edward M and Jeanne C Kashian Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.